What is the principle underlying our prayer?

We begin our prayer with the kauma. It is offered in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. The praises and prayers of the kauma that follow immediately are addressed to Jesus Christ, the incarnate Son. They end with barekmor, which in Syriac means ‘Lord bless’, but it is also the cue for the Chief Celebrant to begin the Lord’s Prayer, which is addressed to the Father.
Thus we begin by ascribing true glory to the triune God, and praise the incarnate Son who disclosed God’s love on the cross, and then sum it up with the Lord’s Prayer.